GOING BEYOND DESIGN: MAKING CAD THE CORNERSTONE OF AN INTEGRATED-DESIGN-TOMANUFACTURING PROCESS

Integrated 3D computer-aided design (CAD) technologies increasingly hold the key to optimizing the entire designto-manufacturing process, enabling manufacturers to bring better products to market faster than the competition. Although CAD has historically focused on design modeling, with manufacturing drawings being the final product, CAD data can now be used to streamline and automate other important downstream tasks.